Ok! this is cute enough for this luddite to go and find my duckling photos, and figure out how to post them... as they say "brb"....

Lightly Burdwood-Porter

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Hmmm... Let's hope I did.

Well, my Muscovy Hen came home one day with SURPRISE! 16 little ducklings following... apparently, she'd made a nest outside the duckie yard... it was literally a little duckie amoeba, that ebbed and flowed all over the yard. Pretty cute.. TOO cute, indeed, cute overload. They now have homes, save the three largest. They will... ah... grace the table at some point.

Ryan, it's the meaningless drivel forum, the natural home of mammalian quackers No way a duck could manage 18 the muscovy ducklings at my mother's place with a poullry ( ) six nipples!
She must have cute photos; they seem to spend a lot of time in a great big pile of duckling cuteness having photos taken of them.
Always hard to reconcile that lot with the adults, who wander around looking like they've got a case of some horrible face-eating disease!
But they wag their tails! Aaw...

She's a first time mom, and managed to hatch eleven ducklings out of twelve eggs. I think she's a keeper!

Mom went outside for drink and to stretch her legs, but the babies are too cozy and snug indoors and don't want to come out yet.

We have six black ones and five 'purple' ones.

We gave the goose some fertile duck eggs to sit on, too. Spot, the hydrophobic intersex muscovy hybrid who thinks he's a chicken, is standing guard while the old Muscovy drake is helping her arrange her boudois.

Eeep! I finally get to contribute to this thread! The ancona duck we bought last year hatched out a batch of five little ducklings. Our last few months have been spent aiting for ducklings, as our other ancona went broody twice...and abandoned the nests both times. Finally, though, this ancona has been a great broody mamma and hatched out these cuties yesterday. Totally worth the wait!

I love how many different colorations they have, from black, to blue, to silver to brown markings! So proud of our ducks!

Nicole Alderman wrote:Eeep! I finally get to contribute to this thread! The ancona duck we bought last year hatched out a batch of five little ducklings. Our last few months have been spent aiting for ducklings, as our other ancona went broody twice...and abandoned the nests both times. Finally, though, this ancona has been a great broody mamma and hatched out these cuties yesterday. Totally worth the wait!

I love how many different colorations they have, from black, to blue, to silver to brown markings! So proud of our ducks!

One of the little black ducklings in this picture grew up, and yesterday and today Twilight hatched out 5-6 little ducklings! (It's hard to count them when they're all hiding under mama!) Five of the eggs cam from a local lady who had blue-egg laying ducks (mutts of rouen, Cayuga and maybe blue Swedish or ancona.) and two were from my own ducks (Since I have a magpie/blue Swedish drake and an ancona drake, and hens that range from ancona, magpie/blue Swedish, magpie/Cayuga, golden 300, white layer, and blue runner duck). In other words, I now have mutt ducks, LOL! I'd wanted pure Anconas, but I kept finding free and super-affordable non-ancona ducks, and couldn't resist!

Once again, I don't have the best pictures, as they're in their nesting box, safe from being harassed by other ducks or our cats. But, still, it's the cuteness that counts, right?

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Just hatched, and peeping out from under Mama

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If you zoom in on the white egg, you can see a little bill peeping out. I'm hoping the duckling made it all the way out!